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Originally Posted by mr flibble
i am sick to death of people complaining about our soldiers and airmen dieing while we are at war. what the hell do you join the armed forces for?
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I've had many friends who have been in the service. Not a one of them joined to die. They joined to make a living and defend the USA. While they practice the arts of war, the ultimate goal is to be so repected as warriors by potential foes that they would never have to go to war.
Soldiers and sailors, when it actually comes to war, are in business to make the other guys die, while not dying themselves. A paraphrase from the movie Patton: "the object is not to die for one's country, it's to make the
other poor son of a bitch die for his. "